• NGC2346@sh.itjust.works
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    17 hours ago

    When they effectively make the internet a dangerous place, Usenet will rise from the darkness. P2P will also always exist and these politicians dont understand computer math, so a lot of what they’re trying to accomplish is bound to fail.

    • 𝄞 Inkstain (they/them)𓆩 𓆪@pawb.social
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      11 hours ago

      As someone who just read the Wikipedia article on Usenet and doesn’t know anything else about it: Would this be pretty much the equivalent of the internet before search engines? Because if so I’m really intrigued

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        9 hours ago

        Never mind search engines, Usenet was being used before people were using web browsers.